Hantavirus Outbreak

MV Hondius remains off the coast of Cape Verde after a suspected respiratory virus outbreak killed three people and left three more seriously ill. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGood morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Stephanie Convery with the main action.Mortgage holders are set to be hundreds of dollars worse off per month than they were at the start of the year as the Reserve Bank prepares to unload a third consecutive interest rate hike on borrowers. More coming up. Continue reading...

Officials say they will not authorise docking ‘to protect public health’ after deaths of three passengers on vesselWhat is hantavirus, the infection thought to have killed three on cruise ship?Officials in Cape Verde have said they will not allow a cruise ship believed to be harbouring an outbreak of a rare respiratory virus to dock in its ports, after the deaths of three passengers onboard.The statement on Monday came hours after global health officials said they were scrambling to investigate the suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a disease primarily found in rodents, on the cruise ship in the Atlantic. Continue reading...

• Tiga orang lainnya jatuh sakit, termasuk seorang warga Inggris berusia 69 tahun yang dilaporkan sedang menjalani perawatan intensif di Afrika Selatan • Tiga orang meninggal dunia setelah dugaan wabah hantavirus terjadi di sebuah kapal pesiar yang berlayar di Atlantik • Satu kasus infeksi hantavirus telah dikonfirmasi dan terdapat lima kasus tambahan yang diduga, menurut informasi World Health Organization kepada Agence France-Presse pada hari Minggu. Lanjutkan membaca...